But in all seriousness he’s going to pick up a bit of a back stabbers fear here soon, keeping him on a mildly paranoid look out for people behind him. He might also have a small dislike of suffocation (which is not canon but still seems like a suitable fear, right?). Having a lack of air filtered into his lungs is really a foul idea. Lets just keep the air coming, yes?
On weaknesses and other disabilities: He’s human. That is one of his major weaknesses in a world filled with Superheroes and Alien invasions. Though perhaps that’s not so much of a weakness considering he holds his own pretty well out there on the playing field. He has no superpowers of his own but he tends to work some super magic in his line of work. This lack of power could be considered a weakness considering his dangerous line of work.
In all seriousness though, he has a small weakness to Superheroes, especially those he idolizes. He still believes in Heroes and believes that with their help they can save and protect the world. It’s what he works so hard and fights so strongly for. Even with this belief it can’t really be used as a weakness against him, can it? That being said, Steve Rogers aka Captain America is the type of person he was raised idolizing, which influenced a lot of his moral upbringing and goals.
He’s protective of civilians and those unable to defend themselves. Even if at times he comes off as uncaring of their needs, wants and desires (sorry Jane, it was for your own good that he took your things). He wouldn’t do well with the choice of ‘save the civilian’ or ‘run to live and fight another day’ even though he knows that the later will be the option that will save more lives at a later day the first one seems more pressing. Though he almost always makes the right choices at the moment it’s a dilemma that is uncomfortable to him.
On strengths, abilities, and awesome things: Coulson has training. Lots and lots of training. He is an Agent of the Strategic Homeland Intervention Enforcement and Logistics Division, better known as simply S.H.I.E.L.D. He has a level 7 clearance which is nearly top level. In the short film “The Consultant” he and another agent are talking and it’s implied that Coulson has the same clearance level as the other agent, which is 6. It is implied that there are other higher levels however. On Coulson’s identification badge it lists him as a level 7. I like to believe that around the time that they found Captain America’s body that Coulson got a raise in clearance level. Either that or Sitwell (the other agent) just didn’t realize that Coulson outranks him in clearance. The point being? He’s a damn trusted man and clearly he has some talent or skill to him.
Coulson has a pretty good ability to lead as well. He’s in charge of a large number of agents (thus his higher rank) and generally it seems he’s well respected as a leader. Clearly he has a few people higher then him (Director Fury and Agent Hill being the two most notable). That being said he tends to take orders very well himself. He does what he needs to do to get the job done but he tries to never step out of his lines of duty. In that regard it’s clear that he has a strong sense of duty and is willing to do what he is told. My own personal headcanon lightly figured that if the morality of an order seems questionable, he might actually find a different way to approach it. He was raised in the light and isn’t much for doing things too darkly. After all, he still believes in heroes winning at the end of the fight, good triumphing over evil and a job he can walk away from and feel good about the results is a job well done.
His training seems to cover a good array of hand to hand combat, though we don’t see him in action too often, we do see him disarm and take down to gas station robbers, simply by handing them his keys and sliding his gun over to them, picking up a sack of flour, pegging one in the face and running, jumping and deflecting the man's shot gun (with his foot) into the man’s foot. He continued to disarm the men, beat them into unconsciousness with as few hits as possible, and then calmly went to pay for his snacks. He didn’t even break a sweat at all, clearly well trained and ready for any kind of situation.
He’s a great marksmen, able to handle just about any gun that you can point and shoot. He can strip, clean and reassemble a gun with mind blowing speed as if it were all second nature, which it is. He is also very good with improvising with his weapons. As I said before he used a sack of flour to disorient one man while he took out the other first. It is on assumption that this includes knives and other such military type weapons, seeing as he’s trained as a damn good Agent. He’s more than a man in a black suit after all.
Other ‘abilities’ seem to be a fairly high intelligence (he knew what a Einstein-Rosen Bridge was) as well as a damn good memory, nearing or close to photographic/eidetic. Though this is not stated anywhere in canon it is just very clear that he doesn’t forget the little details often. I would like to say he’s pretty good with computers and technology as well, considering how much of it he’s surrounded by throughout the series. Also a bit of headcanon would be that he can speak a bit more than just English. Being such a high ranking agent which a good brain on him it would make sense that he could speak a few other languages. At least Spanish, Russian and French with some mild understandings of a few others. Clearly this isn’t stated in the movies, comics or anything so this can be vetoed but it makes sense to me. Not that there will be much need or use for this, but it fills him out a bit more.
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On weaknesses and other disabilities: He’s human. That is one of his major weaknesses in a world filled with Superheroes and Alien invasions. Though perhaps that’s not so much of a weakness considering he holds his own pretty well out there on the playing field. He has no superpowers of his own but he tends to work some super magic in his line of work. This lack of power could be considered a weakness considering his dangerous line of work.
In all seriousness though, he has a small weakness to Superheroes, especially those he idolizes. He still believes in Heroes and believes that with their help they can save and protect the world. It’s what he works so hard and fights so strongly for. Even with this belief it can’t really be used as a weakness against him, can it? That being said, Steve Rogers aka Captain America is the type of person he was raised idolizing, which influenced a lot of his moral upbringing and goals.
He’s protective of civilians and those unable to defend themselves. Even if at times he comes off as uncaring of their needs, wants and desires (sorry Jane, it was for your own good that he took your things). He wouldn’t do well with the choice of ‘save the civilian’ or ‘run to live and fight another day’ even though he knows that the later will be the option that will save more lives at a later day the first one seems more pressing. Though he almost always makes the right choices at the moment it’s a dilemma that is uncomfortable to him.
On strengths, abilities, and awesome things: Coulson has training. Lots and lots of training. He is an Agent of the Strategic Homeland Intervention Enforcement and Logistics Division, better known as simply S.H.I.E.L.D. He has a level 7 clearance which is nearly top level. In the short film “The Consultant” he and another agent are talking and it’s implied that Coulson has the same clearance level as the other agent, which is 6. It is implied that there are other higher levels however. On Coulson’s identification badge it lists him as a level 7. I like to believe that around the time that they found Captain America’s body that Coulson got a raise in clearance level. Either that or Sitwell (the other agent) just didn’t realize that Coulson outranks him in clearance. The point being? He’s a damn trusted man and clearly he has some talent or skill to him.
Coulson has a pretty good ability to lead as well. He’s in charge of a large number of agents (thus his higher rank) and generally it seems he’s well respected as a leader. Clearly he has a few people higher then him (Director Fury and Agent Hill being the two most notable). That being said he tends to take orders very well himself. He does what he needs to do to get the job done but he tries to never step out of his lines of duty. In that regard it’s clear that he has a strong sense of duty and is willing to do what he is told. My own personal headcanon lightly figured that if the morality of an order seems questionable, he might actually find a different way to approach it. He was raised in the light and isn’t much for doing things too darkly. After all, he still believes in heroes winning at the end of the fight, good triumphing over evil and a job he can walk away from and feel good about the results is a job well done.
His training seems to cover a good array of hand to hand combat, though we don’t see him in action too often, we do see him disarm and take down to gas station robbers, simply by handing them his keys and sliding his gun over to them, picking up a sack of flour, pegging one in the face and running, jumping and deflecting the man's shot gun (with his foot) into the man’s foot. He continued to disarm the men, beat them into unconsciousness with as few hits as possible, and then calmly went to pay for his snacks. He didn’t even break a sweat at all, clearly well trained and ready for any kind of situation.
He’s a great marksmen, able to handle just about any gun that you can point and shoot. He can strip, clean and reassemble a gun with mind blowing speed as if it were all second nature, which it is. He is also very good with improvising with his weapons. As I said before he used a sack of flour to disorient one man while he took out the other first. It is on assumption that this includes knives and other such military type weapons, seeing as he’s trained as a damn good Agent. He’s more than a man in a black suit after all.
Other ‘abilities’ seem to be a fairly high intelligence (he knew what a Einstein-Rosen Bridge was) as well as a damn good memory, nearing or close to photographic/eidetic. Though this is not stated anywhere in canon it is just very clear that he doesn’t forget the little details often. I would like to say he’s pretty good with computers and technology as well, considering how much of it he’s surrounded by throughout the series. Also a bit of headcanon would be that he can speak a bit more than just English. Being such a high ranking agent which a good brain on him it would make sense that he could speak a few other languages. At least Spanish, Russian and French with some mild understandings of a few others. Clearly this isn’t stated in the movies, comics or anything so this can be vetoed but it makes sense to me. Not that there will be much need or use for this, but it fills him out a bit more.